I Have No Idea What The MCU Wants Or Where It's Going
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Thor: Love & Thunder. Christian Bale and Natalie Portman are two of my all-time favourite actors and both put in good performances - Bale especially. Plus I've long been an advocate for MCU movies to take themselves less seriously, to have more of an individual feel to them, and to be less concerned with the wider storyline and focus on themselves - Love & Thunder does all three. With so many characters in the MCU these days, I also think they could be doing more to give each movie a better texture. Doctor Strange did that with Scarlet Witch, and Thor brought in the Guardians to remind us that even though we view these stories as isolated two-hour adventures, that's not how the heroes live their lives. Thor: Love & Thunder did everything right, but I'm not sure I liked it very much. Mostly it left me confused as to what I want, what you want, and what Marvel wants.
The answer is easy once you get right down to it, I suppose. You and I want good movies and a sense of escalation, while the MCU wants money money money. With the exception of a few missteps here and there (one of which was another Thor film in The Dark World), that plan has worked for all three phases. Right now, the money is still pouring in, but the sense of escalation isn't there. It might seem like I'm impossible to please, wanting a never-ending sense of escalation while also wanting movies to do their own thing away from the storyline, but everything feels so disconnected. Aside from the logo at the start, Shang-Chi has nothing to do with Moon Knight which has nothing to do with Spider-Man which has nothing to do with Thor. It feels like by now we shouldn't be doing filler episodes in the continuity.
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